Food Info Startup Innit Raises $25m, Cannabis Fund Launches, Jain Irrigation Raising $120m, more
Welcome to another AgFunderNews’ Fundings in Brief, including food and agriculture technology funding news and industry insight from the week.
Welcome to another AgFunderNews’ Fundings in Brief, including food and agriculture technology funding news and industry insight from the week.
Chris Baggott, the serial entrepreneur and co-founder of two major marketing software programs, has turned his attention to food and agriculture with the creation of two new startups.
Agtech VC veteran Finistere led a $3.4m investment round into food discovery app ShopWell alongside S2G Ventures and other VCs.
Welcome to another addition of AgFunderNews’ weekly roundup. Drones are back in the news, PE investors exited a Scottish shellfish company and an organic frozen fruit brand for $600m, and the World Bank’s IFC has invested in BigBasket.com
Brooklyn-headquartered Farmigo is offering consumers an opportunity to buy local produce online while India’s PepperTap raised $36m Series B from investors including India’s Amazon, SnapDeal.
An Indonesian grocery delivery business in $12m Series A, an Indian meal delivery service raises $600k and a farmland fund closure are among this week’s fundings in brief.
This week’s news includes an at-the-market offering from Farmland Partners, two food e-commerce fundings, a drone funding and drone acquisition, Tate & Lyle’s recent exit
A rare healthy meal delivery service in London has raised seed capital from a group of U.K. and Dutch investors to fund marketing and expansion of the service.
It’s food-first for Snap Kitchen, an Austin, Texas-based startup, which is offering consumers food to satisfy a range of diets, but the startup’s technology offering is gathering pace, co-founder and president Martin Berson tells AgFunderNews.
Green Blender, the DIY green smoothie kit service, is an alumnus of Food-X and the latest in a string of food e-commerce investments in the wake of an operational downsizing by Good Eggs last week.
This week saw two food e-commerce related fundings, two new agriculture funds, and a big play on chocolate.
Deals from the week include a private equity-backed Australian producer’s A$550m IPO, an agriculture fund commitment by Merced County and the Accel Partners-led Series A round of grocery delivery company Opinio in Bangalore.
Colorado has a range of resources available to innovators, researchers, and entrepreneurs building food & agriculture-related companies. Here are eight we have found.
Food delivery services are continuing to capture the attention of the venture capital community after home cooking meal kit delivery service Plated closed a $35 million Series B round last week.
Food retailers have been hot on the trail of new ways to help consumers stock their pantries and refrigerators. Using platforms similar to Amazon, many
Berlin-based Delivery Hero announced recently that it has secured an additional $110 million in funding from two unidentified U.S.-based “leading public market investors.” This recent funding round
About 40 percent of food in the US is wasted each day. Each year, the average American family spends $2,200 on wasted food. One company,
Zomato, which competes for the mantle of India’s top food delivery app with rival Swiggy, is reportedly valued at $12.2 billion post-IPO.
It started out as a last-mile food delivery app in 2011 before branching out to become a ‘full stack’ logistics and fulfillment platform.
The Singapore-based app claims to be the category leader for online food delivery, ride-hailing, and digital payments in Southeast Asia.